Biography Book Report

Pick a biography or autobiography to read.

Present the following information about the person you chose. (If the biography you read did not contain some of this information, you may do additional research about your person on line or in an encyclopedia).

1. Cover:

Include a drawing of your character (original or from the Internet), the title of the biography, the author of the biography, and your name.

2 A three to five paragraph book report that includes:

Introduction

• Hook us into your person's life within the first few sentences
• Give a brief statement about who you're writing about, why you chose the person, and why they are an important person to learn about

Body

• Describe the early life of your character. (Tell the date and place where your character was born and raised. Tell about what kind of person he or she was. What was it about your character that helped him or her to succeed? Did your character know what he or she wanted to become in the future? How did your character prepare for his or her future? Include family details or details about habits and hobbies that have to do with their later work).
• Describe the goals and accomplishments of this person. Do you think this person was successful? Why or why not? What factors influenced this person’s achievements?
• What influence did the person have on his/her community, the country, or the world. (Tell why his or her contribution was important, why the work was important. Did he or she invent something or teach others? How did he or she change the world? What lasting effects did your character have on the lives of others?)

Conclusion

• What should we all know about your character? (How do we benefit today from him or her? What do you think was the most impressive thing about your character?)
• What is your opinion about the person's life and accomplishments . (In what ways would you like to be him or her?)
• Would you recommend the book to others? Why or why not?

You will be graded according to this rubric.

Some suggested biographies that you may be interested in reading are:

26 Fairmount Avenue (Tomie DePaola)
A Day of Pleasure - Singer
A Girl From Yamhill - Cleary
A Little House Sampler - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Behind Rebel Lines - Seymour Reit.
Boy - Roald Dahl
Childtimes - Greenfield
China Homecoming - Jean Fritz
Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte (first Native American Woman doctor) - by J.L. Wilkerson
Duke Ellington - by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Caldecott Honor Book)
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery - by Russell Freedman
Heart of a Champion: An Autobiography - Michelle Kwan
Homesick, My Own Story - Jean Fritz
How I Became a Writer - Naylor
I Am Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks
It Came from Ohio - R.L. Stine
Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend - Alison Leslie Gold
My Great -Aunt Arizona - Gloria Houston
One Giant Leap - Robert Burleigh and Mike Wimmer
Sacagawea - Judith St. George
Sadako - Eleanor Coerr
Self Portrait: Margot Zemach - Margot Zemach
Small Steps: The Year I got Polio - Peg Kehret
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Heroine of the Titanic
The Libarian Who Measured the Earth - by Kathryn Lasky
The Lost Garden - Yep
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Through My Eyes - Ruby Bridges
Triumph on Ice : An Autobiography - Tara Lipinski
Zlata's Diary: A child's life in Sarajevo (Zlata Filipovic)